France imposing a fine for no-shows at GP surgeries.

You need to be able to first get a consultation!

I am on the Patient Participation Group at my GP surgery. Every meeting I go to, the subject of non-attendees and what can be done about it comes up.Somebody always says why can't we charge them. The Practice Manager always says, you can't! Some of the people who don't turn up, for instance, have Dementia or other memory problems. How would you collect the money, for instance, from people who don't want to pay?

We had a message on FB yesterday from our Surgery.

Some people who now have the NHS app, have booked themselves in for blood tests.

The Surgery have told us that you can’t just book a blood test
( or any other test) without seeing your GP first or get the go ahead from the Hospital.

3 had been turned away on one day and the Nurses now have no idea how many appointments have been made in error.

Obviously people think that as you have the opportunity to do things on the App, you can bypass the normal ‘rules’ , if this is one day in one surgery, I dread to think how many wasted appointments have happened over the Country.

That's a bit daft. How would you know what bloods needed testing?